With the danger of creating a poets' corner
I thought I would share the lyrics of the great
but little known US singer Warren Zevon.
a favourite song of his contains sentiments
that some may recognise at certain lunar periods:
Basket Case
(written by Warren Zevon and Carl Hiaasen)
My baby is a basket case
A bipolar mama in leather and lace
Face like an angel-she's a perfect waste
My baby is a basket case
Dracula's daughter, Calamity Jane
Smoke on the water, water on the brain
She's pretty as a picture-and totally crazed
My baby is a basket case
She's gonna make a madman outta me
She's gonna make a madman outta me
She's manic-depressive and schizoid, too
The friskiest psycho that I ever knew
We're paranoid lovers lost in space
My baby is a basket case
My baby's gonna celebrate
I'm being dragged through the nuthouse gates
Got my straitjacket on and I'm taking her place
My baby is a basket case
She finally made a madman outta me
She finally made a madman outta me
My baby made a madman outta me
She finally made a madman outta me
Warren Zevon was truly a great song writer.
If you haven't heard of him, and the lyrics resonate,
then you are in for a treat.
I came to him late after he had passed on,
along with his great mate Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
Some of his greatest songs include:
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Lawyers, Guns & Money
I''ll Sleep When I'm Dead
Life'll Kill Ya
Truly a Misanthrope's Balladeer!